# Knight Playing Card

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-es-rc57ca37c4ecc49/knight-playing-card-ra9e992420e5f1e>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [MASTER E.S.](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-es-rc57ca37c4ecc49>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Engraving

## Commentary

Besides small devotional prints bearing images of Christ, the Virgin, or any number of saints, The earlist prints which were produced in quantity and sold at low prices were playing cards, used for the purpose of amusing and entertaining.

## Related artworks

- [Christ as Saviour](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-es-rc57ca37c4ecc49/christ-as-saviour-r79f4daa45efef3>)
- [Letter G from the Fantastic Alphabet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-es-rc57ca37c4ecc49/letter-g-from-the-fantastic-alphabet-rfe816071d16de4>)
- [Letter N from the Fantastic Alphabet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-es-rc57ca37c4ecc49/letter-n-from-the-fantastic-alphabet-r7ec7a6f8fe122d>)
- [Man of Sorrows between Four Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-es-rc57ca37c4ecc49/man-of-sorrows-between-four-angels-r1e459a1f072fae>)
- [The Large Virgin of Einsiedeln](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-es-rc57ca37c4ecc49/the-large-virgin-of-einsiedeln-rd059609dff3b3f>)
- [The Small Virgin of Einsiedeln](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-es-rc57ca37c4ecc49/the-small-virgin-of-einsiedeln-r87c07bf1d468f8>)
- [The Smallest Virgin of Einsiedeln](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-es-rc57ca37c4ecc49/the-smallest-virgin-of-einsiedeln-rd449171f429b66>)
- [Virgin and Child with Sts Barbara and Dorothea](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-es-rc57ca37c4ecc49/virgin-and-child-with-sts-barbara-and-dorothea-r1e5ce502cf4a8d>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)